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Shmuel Lissek is a researcher affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research broadly spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a pronounced focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their scientific work also intersects with behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, and neurology.

Their main research topics include stress responses and cortisol, memory and neural mechanisms, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, traumatic brain injury research, and posttraumatic stress disorder research.

Frequent publication venues for Shmuel Lissek include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Lissek are:

  • The neurobiology of human fear generalization: meta-analysis and working neural model, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders, 2022, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Consensus design of a calibration experiment for human fear conditioning, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Salience and central executive networks track overgeneralization of conditioned-fear in post-traumatic stress disorder, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Emotional numbing in PTSD is associated with lower amygdala reactivity to pain, 2022, Neuropsychopharmacology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shmuel Lissek include:

  • Hannah Berg
  • Scott R. Sponheim
  • Nicholas D. Davenport
  • Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez
  • Seth G. Disner

Best Publications

  • Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders : a meta-analysis

    Shmuel Lissek;Alice S. Powers;Erin B. McClure;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety

    Yuko Hakamata;Shmuel Lissek;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer C. Britton

  • Updated Meta-Analysis of Classical Fear Conditioning in the Anxiety Disorders

    Puck Duits;Danielle C. Cath;Shmuel Lissek;Joop J. Hox

  • Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear as a Pathogenic Marker of Panic Disorder

    Shmuel Lissek;Stephanie Rabin;Randi E. Heller;David Lukenbaugh

  • Generalized anxiety disorder is associated with overgeneralization of classically conditioned fear.

    Shmuel Lissek;Shmuel Lissek;Antonia N. Kaczkurkin;Stephanie Rabin;Marilla Geraci

  • Generalization of conditioned fear-potentiated startle in humans: experimental validation and clinical relevance.

    Shmuel Lissek;Arter L. Biggs;Stephanie J. Rabin;Brian R. Cornwell

  • Anxious responses to predictable and unpredictable aversive events

    Christian Grillon;Johanna P. Baas;Shmuel Lissek;Kathryn Smith

  • Toward an account of clinical anxiety predicated on basic, neurally mapped mechanisms of Pavlovian fear-learning: The case for conditioned overgeneralization

    Shmuel Lissek

  • Development of anxiety: the role of threat appraisal and fear learning

    Jennifer C. Britton;Shmuel Lissek;Christian Grillon;A B S Maxine Norcross

  • Increased anxiety during anticipation of unpredictable but not predictable aversive stimuli as a psychophysiologic marker of panic disorder

    Christian Grillon;Shmuel Lissek;Stephanie Rabin;Dana McDowell

  • Increased Anxiety During Anticipation of Unpredictable Aversive Stimuli in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder but not in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Christian Grillon;Daniel S. Pine;Shmuel Lissek;Stephanie Rabin

  • Neural substrates of classically conditioned fear-generalization in humans: a parametric fMRI study

    Shmuel Lissek;Daniel E. Bradford;Ruben P. Alvarez;Philip C Burton

  • Impaired discriminative fear-conditioning resulting from elevated fear responding to learned safety cues among individuals with panic disorder.

    Shmuel Lissek;Stephanie J. Rabin;Dana J. McDowell;Sharone Dvir

  • The strong situation: A potential impediment to studying the psychobiology and pharmacology of anxiety disorders

    Shmuel Lissek;Daniel S. Pine;Christian Grillon

  • Learning models of PTSD: Theoretical accounts and psychobiological evidence

    Shmuel Lissek;Brian van Meurs

  • Neural Substrates of Overgeneralized Conditioned Fear in PTSD

    Antonia N. Kaczkurkin;Antonia N. Kaczkurkin;Philip C. Burton;Shai M. Chazin;Shai M. Chazin;Adrienne B. Manbeck;Adrienne B. Manbeck

  • Fear conditioning in adolescents with anxiety disorders: results from a novel experimental paradigm

    Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Shmuel Lissek;Eric E. Nelson;Yoon Lee

  • Distinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adults

    Jennifer Y. Lau;Jennifer Y. Lau;Jennifer C. Britton;Eric E. Nelson;Adrian Angold

  • Response to learned threat: An FMRI study in adolescent and adult anxiety.

    Jennifer C. Britton;Christian Grillon;Shmuel Lissek;Maxine A. Norcross

  • Elevated Fear Conditioning to Socially Relevant Unconditioned Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder

    Shmuel Lissek;B.A. Jessica Levenson;B.A. Arter L. Biggs;B.A. Linda L. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Grillon
Christian Grillon National Institutes of Health
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London
Johanna M.P. Baas
Johanna M.P. Baas Utrecht University
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Jennifer C. Britton
Jennifer C. Britton University of Miami
Koen Schruers
Koen Schruers Maastricht University
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Eric E. Nelson
Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University
Danielle C. Cath
Danielle C. Cath Utrecht University

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